Posted in beef, cheap meal, culture, eating, ground meat, hearty, holiday, Italian, Italy, language, Meat, milk, Naples, Napoli, pancetta, Pasta, pork, Recipe, Recipes, sauce, Saveur, slow cooking, tomato, tourism, tradition, travel, wine on Apr 22nd, 2008
Click here for more of our photos of Bologna Warning! You are about to read a lot about a dish that many would think could be discussed in one paragraph – Bolognese Ragu. After two trips to Bologna, I really began to understand how seriously the people there take their food. Because we are always [...]
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Posted in beef, corn, Food Commentary, news on Apr 16th, 2008
The Vegans were pissed and thought it was gross (and even staged a small protest) but Danny Girton, the Guinness World Records judge thought “it was all so beautiful”. Uruguay, the little country with a big heart (yup, just made that up), had it’s moment in the spotlight on Tuesday, April 14th when they won the Guinness [...]
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Posted in barbecue, beef, cabbage, cheap meal, chile, chili, cilantro, culture, easy, language, lime, meal, Mexican, oregano, peppers, Recipe, Recipes, serrano, spicy, Steak, technique, tomatillos, tortilla, tortillas, tradition on Apr 10th, 2008
Normally we wouldn’t post a recipe for something as everyday as a steak taco. Most people know how to make them, right? But how many take the time to cook them really, really well? It actually doesn’t take much longer to make them more authentic. I’m not being a food snob here, I’m just talking [...]
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On a cold, wintery day, there is nothing better than the warmth of a hearty bowl of Hungarian goulash. After much research, I adapted a recipe by Wolfgang Puck. I’m glad I trusted my instinct that his would taste pretty authentic considering he is from Austria. According to my research, traditional goulash should NEVER contain [...]
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Posted in Asian, beef, Brooklyn, cilantro, lime, Meat, pressure-cooker, rant, Recipe, Recipes, Restaurant Review, Ribs, rice, Thai on Dec 10th, 2007
Did you ever have a restaurant that you once loved and somehow, over the years, it lost its way? Did you give that restaurant just ONE last chance, hoping that it would eventually return back to it’s former self, but it never really did? One last question, did you ever give the same restaurant a “second [...]
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Posted in beef, cheese, culture, feta, Garlic, grilled, ground meat, lamb, language, Lebanese, lemon, lower fat, Meat, parsley, pita, pork, quick meal, Recipe, Recipes, sauce, skewers, tradition, yogurt on Dec 3rd, 2007
This is one of those meals we often make in the winter when we want something tasty, filling, but not high in fat. By cooking the ‘kabobs’ on the flat griddle pan, the fat drips off into the drip pan part of the griddle leaving us with a leaner kabob. I’ve been meaning to post [...]
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Posted in beef, butter, chips, compound butter, french fries, fried, indulgent meal, martini, meal, Recipe, Recipes, Steak, tarragon on Oct 14th, 2007
After a long, hard week at work, Jonny and I usually try and treat ourselves on Friday nights, especially when the weather turns colder, to a drink and an indulgent meal. Ok, we don’t just reserve this for Fridays only, but for some reason, a drink and a meal always seems to just taste better [...]
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